There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty. That's the point I was at before I was able to make.

Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.